Sand-distributer



(No Model.)

H. MOORHO'USE. SAND DISTRIBUTER Patented Mar. 2'7, 1894.

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HENRY MOORHOUSE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE EAST COAST MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SAND-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,055,-dated March 27, 1894.

Appli a i n fi September 13, 1893. Serial No. 485,398- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY Moonnousn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sand-Distributers, of which the following, with reference to the drawings, is afull, clear, and exact description, that may enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same My invention belongs to that class of devices for distributing sand, for sand coating paint, for distributing sand or sanding liquids upon surfaces prepared for its instillation, adhesion, or retention, for coating roofing, and for other purposes of mixing for which it may be found applicable. And the invention consists in a simple, durable, and compact device for the purposes as will be more particularly described hereinafter and pointed out in the claim. 7

My invention is specially adapted for coating roofing as it may be specially prepared previous to application to the roof, and for this special purpose I have shown simply a means for rotating the roller and a means for connectingitto the trough, allowing freedom and room for manipulating the roofing sheets along under the roller at a speed that may vary, or by the use of further additional, and more intricate mechanism be gaged in its speed by the speed of the roller. In the present illustration the sheets are supposed to be moved by hand, and the sand delivered thereon evenly, or more or less profusely as the skill of the operator may determine.

In the following description and the drawings like letters of reference indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a side view of the distributing roller, a piece of it is broken away to show its construction more clearly and it also shows by referring to Figs. 3 and 4 how the roller may be supplied with two kinds of buckets, to be used together, or either in the placeof the other, for picking up and delivering the sand' or other mixtures. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same, and its relation with the sand trough beneath, from out of which the sand is taken up by the buckets of the roller, carried over onits revolution, and dis tributed outside the trough, as it is allowed to gravitate from theupturned buckets of the roller to the surfaces heretofore mentioned. Fig. 2 also shows how the roller (see dotted lines) is supplied with bearings for its shaft, and how the trough is secured to the same standards which supply these bearings. Fig. 3 is a sectional end elevation of the roller in which it is supplied with projecting teeth instead of holes for lifting up and distributing the sand. Fig. 4 is aside view of the same toothed roller.

A represents the roller, or the peripheral shell of a roller, through which the shaft D is provided to extend longitudinally and give revolution to the roller, said shaft having revolution in boxes as of ordinary construction. Upon the shaft is hung a disk 0 at each end of the roller which is provided with a central and inwardly extending hub 1" through which the shaft of the roller passes, and also a flange s at its outer rim edge to which the shell A is made fast, the disks thus fitted within the ends of the circular shell form closed heads to the roller, the whole or a part being made of either wood or metal, and its periphery either provided with the holes h or the projecting teeth 2' for the purpose of lifting up and distributing the sand or other equivalent substances that may be found desirable for the purposes enumerated. If as distributin g factors the holes hare used, the shell of the roller from its periphery is punctured withholes,arrangedspirally,orintermediately in order upon its face, so that there is no space in the length of the roller but what will be covered by one or more holes as the roller is revolved. These holes extend into the roller tangentially to the circle of its axis, or in other words, departing more or less at an angle fromthe radial lines that would run to the center of the roller, and at the angle that 1 maybe found best for the gentle and gradual discharge, of their contents, co-operatin g with the speed of the roller. But, if instead, the

fill with the sand or other mixture from the trough by the scooping action imparted as the roller revolves and rises from said trough.

13 represents the trough, which in cross section is semicircular and of length sufficient to retain the roller longitudinally within it, but to one'side of it, in its location therein the trough having a larger circular construction than the roller gives room for sand, while allowing the roller to project into it, and also permits one of its upper edges to come against, or in close proximity to the roller, and to that side of the roller which is moving downward. This edge of the trough is cut vertically, and is thus provided with the vertical face f which comes within, or under the extreme face of the roller, and by this vertical cutting away, the trough is brought to a sharp edge, having contact or close relation with the roller. It will thus be seen how the roller overreaches the trough on its downwardly revolving side, taking the sand 6 there-from and permitting it to gravitate to the surface outside below. The speed of the roller being regulated and made in direction of the arrow z the work of distribution is rapidly accomplished.

H represents the standards arranged at either end of the trough and roller, and to support said roller by the shaft thereof being seated in the boxes at the top of the standards, and the trough being provided with slotted ears 70 through which bolts are passed into the legs of the standard.

Having thus fully described my improvements, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination of two standards and a substantially semicylindrical trough supported thereby for containing sand, the forward edge whereof is vertically arranged, and a sand distributing roller supported eccentrically above the trough on said standards, said roller being furnished with means for rotating it and having holes arranged on its face extending inward tangentially to its axis, the roller dipping into the trough and arranged so that its surface at the extreme forward part of the roller overhangs the vertical surface at the forward edge of the trough, the lowermost part of the trough being arranged above the feet of the standards whereby a space is formed between the standards and under the trough through which a sheet of roofing may be passed substantially as described.

HENRY MOORHOUSE. lVitnesses:

JOHN T. \VALL, JOHN ROSENBERG. 

